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Publisher
Demeter Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This book considers Black Motherhood through multiple and global lenses to engage the reader in an expanded reflection and to prompt further discourse on the intersection of race and gender within the construct of motherhood among black women. With an aim to extend traditional treatments of black motherhood that are often centered on a subordinated and struggling perspective, these essays address some of the hegemonic reality while also exploring...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
"Behind the political, medical, and moral debates on abortion, Wilt argues, is a profound psychocultural shock at the recognition that maternity is passing from the domain of instinct to that of conscious choice. Although never wholly instinctual, maternity's potential capture by consciousness raises complex questions. The novels Wilt discusses portray worlds in which principles are endangered by sexual inequality, male power and hidden male fear...
20) Raising the dust: the literary housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English